"Difficult" child?

So, you know something isn't right about your child. They throw tantrums, threaten your safety, harm their siblings, act out in classrooms and in public. Your proverbial hands are tied. If you implement corporal punishment, you're a "bad" parent for inflicting violence upon your child. If you set boundaries and consequences, it's tedious to stay on top of the issues. If you do nothing, you know that they're not going to "grow out of it."

Notes from the school, calls from parents, and now your child is a defendant on the Juvenile Court docket for shoplifting? When does it END?!

For any parent who is struggling with these issues, Joyce Alexander has launched a blog site to address these issues and, specifically, to support parents and family members of children who have extreme behavioral disorders, are on their way to incarceration, or are already doing their time.

Joyce's story is hard to read, and those who are interested can check it out, themselves, at http://www.familyarrested.com


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